People

Alberto Mestas-Nunez, Dr. Mestas is interested in understanding processes involved in air-sea-land interactions in the Earth’s climate system. He works with remotely sensed observation, in situ measurements, and output from computer model simulations. He is particularly interested in application of modern observational technologies such as autonomous ocean buoyancy-glider observations, new Earth-observing satellite missions, and applications of data science to the geosciences.
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alberto.mestas@utsa.edu

Xin Miao, expertise is in data mining, machine learning, image interpretation and RS/GIS programming. Miao will lead the image classification algorithm developments and will work closely with other PIs to conduct cross-site software testing, documentation and software integration.
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xinmiao@missouristate.edu

Hongjie Xie, sea ice domain scientist as well as remote sensing and GIS specialist. Professor Xie conducted sea ice field works in both Arctic and Antarctic. He will provide the scientific contents to the CI project, oversee the entire project and closely work with other PIs for the CI development and algorithm development and testing. He will lead the development of CI data framework and structure and will lead the integrated data analysis.
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hongjie.xie@utsa.edu

Chaowei Yang, leading scholar in geoscience CI, cloud computing, spatial web portal, and spatiotemporal research for improving CI performance. Director of I/UCRC at George Mason University.
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cyang3@gmu.edu